OVERALL THEME: Gender Democracy and Development: Twenty Years of Transformative Feminist Struggle For Women's Rights, Gender Equity and Social Justice- Where are we? What next?

The Gender Festival is an open forum for likeminded individuals and organisations to come together to share experiences and knowledge, to celebrate achievements and assess challenges ahead, to strengthen networking and coalition-building, to build capacity and to contribute to public debate and plan collectively for social change from a feminist perspective.

Location

Vienna

Austria

48° 12' 29.4264" N, 16° 22' 25.7484" E

Info:Globale Dialoge is a weekly radio show produced by the editorial collective Women on Air which was founded by the Viennese free radio station ORANGE 94.0 and the magazine Frauensolidarität. Since 2005 it gets broadcasted by radio ORANGE 94.0 (Vienna, also via livestream) every Tuesday (13:00 - 14:00) and puts an emphasis on the international women's movement, global feminism, feminist/queer activism, sustainable development, human rights, migration, cultural production by women etc.

Location

Ukraine

Info:
blog of an Ukrainian anarcha-feminist collective; emphasis on feminist theory, activism, protest, discrimination, stereotypes, lgbtq, homophobia, anarcha-feminism, women's rights, equality, anti-capitalism, violence, sexism (in media, advertising, everyday life, but also in anarchist/activist movements), body politics (abortion, reproductive rights), feminist comics/flyers/stickers/visual material, DIY, arts, etc. They work a lot with feminist/lgbtq/anti-homophobia visual material/comics, distributing it in the DIY section of their blog. In 2010 they have published a special issue print zine dealing with the problem of power structures, domination, sexism and violence in activism and especially in the anarchist movement, but also including a section about feminist self-defense.

Location

Czech Republic

Info:Přímá cesta ("The Direct Way") was a zine published by the Czech anarcha-feminist group Anarchofeministická skupina between 2001 and 2006 (8 issues); each issue is based on a specific topic; emphasis on anarcha-feminist history/theory/activism, globalisation/economic alternatives/anarchism, family/parenting, language/media, antifascism, patriarchy, pornography, sexuality/LGBTIQ, violence/women in conflict, book/zine reviews/literature, culture/film/music, translations of theoretical texts (mostly about anarcha-feminism) etc. Almost all issues can get downloaded from their website!!! Anarchofeministická skupina also published another bulletin: SIRENA.

Location

St. Gallen

Switzerland

47° 25' 26.76" N, 9° 22' 15.168" E

Info:Olympe was a Swiss trilingual (German - French - Italian, most articles in German) feminist journal; each issue had a special topic; emphasis on women's and gender politics, economy, migration/postcolonial perspectives, women's rights, equality, violence/power etc. With issue #33 (September 2012) the journal ceased publication, but all issues can get downloaded from the website of the Frauenarchiv Ostschweiz

Statement:
Spectra is an award-winning Nigerian writer, women’s rights activist, new media consultant, and philanthropist. She is the voice behind the afrofeminist media blog, Spectra Speaks, which publishes news, opinions, and personal stories about gender, media, and diversity as they pertain to Africa and the Diaspora.